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    Kerbin Geostationary Orbit

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    So I was looking through all of my existing probes in KSP when I realized one of them was extremely outdated. It was a Huuble-like space telescope. So I decided I would launch a new space telescope. I also thought to myself, "What do I have to do to get a probe into a geostationary orbit?" I did some research online (looked at the KSP  wiki) and found out that a geostationary orbit around Kerbin would have to have a perfectly circular 2,863.33 km orbit. I spent some time launching it and getting it into the correct orbit, and it worked! I put this on the forums just in case someone is wondering the same thing about a geostationary orbit. :)

    Here's a picture of the space telescope:

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    What did you do in KSP1 today?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, Brownhair2 said:

    I've been doing prep work for my flight to Titanus. I moved the Titan into an orbit around Sonnah, and adjusted its inclination. It's a tad bit eccentric, but I decided to save circularization until the window. Who knows, maybe I'm already halfway to an escape trajectory to Titanus. I also decided to bring back the Sierra, since leaving it sitting there doing nothing for a year or two seemed a bit mean. Also I was having a lot of issues with the mission, besides the rig (it was a pain to take off and a pain to land). I wasn't going to take any pictures, but then I noticed this:

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    See that black speck to the left of the Sierra? That's its shadow.

    Spoopy.

    What mod are you using?

    Wich Planet/Moon do you hate the most?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted · Edited by The Raging Sandwich

    The three main bodies in the game I hate are Moho, Ike, and Dres. I would add Duna too, but the only thing I don't like about it is how boring it looks. I like Ike a bit more than Moho and Dres. In fact, I used it to escape Duna easily just this morning. Other times it gets in the way of everything. Moho and Dres are ugly looking, too. Dres is a bit easier to get to than Moho, though. I have to make slightly different rockets (and I mean slightly) to send two perfectly identical landers to each. By far the one I dislike the most is Moho.

    Beautiful solar eclipse

    in KSP Fan Works

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, Markus1002 said:

    For some reason, when I edit my post, there is no Imgur (i) symbol in the top bar, so I can't add imgur albums. :(

    You can't put in Imgur albums, but you can put individual screenshots in. By copying the direct link into the "insert image from URL" in the inser other media tab. I don't know if you did that for the screenshot above. Imgur is pretty wonky right now! :P

    Show off your awesome KSP pictures!

    in KSP Fan Works

    Posted

    More screenshots from my two Jool missions:

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    Couldn't help but take a screenshot of this masterpiece: Laythe and Jool from my Surveyor 17 mission. Last image I plan to take!

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    A cool screenshot of Vall rising from my Lunar 11 Laythe lander. (It landed upside-down.)

    More images of my Surveyor 17 mission can be found here:

     

    My book "Outpost" [UPDATE: Chapter 18: The End] Completed!

    in The Lounge

    Posted · Edited by The Raging Sandwich

    7 hours ago, SyzygyΣE said:

    @The Raging Sandwich

    A pretty action packed chapter 5 but I only have one pick at it. Shouldn't it be that sound cannot travel through a vacuum? I was wondering how the explosion from the moon managed to reach the surface of the planet the team is residing on, considering it was space in between the two objects and sound requires a medium to travel through. Either that or I have some kind of crazy misconception.

    Space. Violent yet silent.

    I totally forgot about that! I'll fix it in future drafts. I just needed something that would cause an avalanche to crush one of the rovers. Thanks! Working on Chapter 6 now!

    My book "Outpost" [UPDATE: Chapter 18: The End] Completed!

    in The Lounge

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    Chapter 5!

     

    I’m writing this from the planet CO 167849c. It’s a long story.

    I woke up to the loud sound of an air horn filling my ears. “Get up Johnson!” said Ryan with a laugh, a crewmember of Explorer 2 who was a known prankster.

                    “What is wrong with you, man?” I said.

                    “Here on Outpost 2, we take waking up very seriously,” Ryan said jokingly.

                    I got up completely awake now and chased him down until we got to the kitchen. I didn’t even put on daytime clothes. “What are you guys doing?” asked Quick.

                    “This butthole woke me up with an air horn! Did you not hear it?”

                    “Oh I heard it. I hear it every morning! You’ll get used to it over the next few days.”

                    “Yeah, great,” I said as I went back to my own guest quarters to put on some daytime clothes. I went back to the kitchen to make myself some actual eggs. These weren’t the best eggs, mind you, but they were a lot better than the dry yellow squares back on Planet 1 and the Nighthawk. Commander Quick and I walked back to the lounge and sat on the white chairs to eat there.

                    “So how come you guys get actual food and we don’t?” I asked.

                    “Because NASA likes us better,” he joked. “But in all seriousness, NASA found it too costly to send up tons of actual food for each mission. Freeze-drying it reduced the weight of the food making it cost and weigh a lot less.”

                    We sat there in silence for a while as we watched the TV. The news reporter was yelling over the loud crowd behind here. It really annoyed me because she had a microphone on and the crowd noise was being edited to be a lot quieter. She was reporting on the live results of the presidential election.

                    As we were watching, eating our breakfast, Edens came in the room. “There you guys are!” she said. “We were wondering where you were. Everyone is up, ready to start the day.” She left for the kitchen.

                    We finished every single bite of food on our plates. “So tell me a little bit more about this planet,” I said. We put our plates down on the table between our chairs.

                    “Well,” Quick started, “Tycho 562b has two moons. The largest moon is 1,600 miles in diameter while the other one is a measly 400. We dubbed them B1 and B2. B1 is the large one and B2 is the smaller. B1 is extremely volcanic. Not as active as Io back at Jupiter, however.

                    “During the few months we’ve been here, we’ve counted at least 30 volcanoes on B1. We’ve actually seen some eruptions! Our observations have uncovered something unsettling, however. Thermal scans indicate vast amounts of magma are building up underneath its surface.

                    “Soon, the magma building up inside B1 will cause a cataclysmic eruption. The amount of magma inside the moon will pretty much cause the whole thing to explode. We’re estimating that it can even happen within a couple months.

                    “NASA has known about this for a while and so have we. We’ve gone through the evacuation procedures many, many times.  We’re just worried it may happen sooner than we thought. God forbid it happens while you guys are here.”

                    I sat there listening as he explained. We sat there without talking for some seconds; the only noise was the TV and the other crewmembers talking in the other room. I finally asked, “Well, what’s the evacuation procedure?”

                    “Well, first we stop whatever we’re doing, whatever it may be, and get inside the lander. If it happens while you’re here, you’ll do the same. We’ll know if it happens. The sound of B1 exploding will be deafening. If a chunk of B1 falls down to the planet, it’ll at least take a minute or two to get here.

                    “The lander doesn’t take long to start up, as you know. By the time a chunk of it gets here, we’ll be long gone. We’ll get to our ship in no time. To save time and effort, you’ll come with us. We’ll book it to the nearest planet, Tycho 564c.”

                    “So tell me something else about here,” I said.

                    “Well, the ring system is something to think about. How did they get there? How did they form? NASA thinks another moon went through the same process B1 will go through soon. The chunks of the moon congregated into rings around the planet. If B1 explodes, the rings here will get bigger and denser, probably rivaling Saturn’s back home.”

                    “I bet that would be a great sight.”

                    “Also, Tycho 564b isn’t on a tilt around its axis. That means no seasons. It’s a pleasant 64 degrees average here on this place on the planet all year long. The average nighttime temperature is about 52. It only snows up north and down south were there isn’t as much light.”

                    We sat there still worrying about B1. On the TV, the woman was interviewing the brand new president of the United States.

                    “So now that you’re going to be the official president at the end of January, do you have any doubts about your foreign policies and promises?” she asked.

                    “Well, I have to admit, I’m a little less nervous. The lopsided vote for me gives me a little more confidence going into office. As for my campaign promises, I have no doubts. I’m going to put an end to terrorism once and for all.”

                    The new president went off to do some more interviews as the picture changed from the reporter to the news anchor. We got up and went back to the crowded kitchen. Everyone was up and talkative. The two crews were telling each other about their adventures.

     

                    We opened the hatch and felt the fresh outside air. We were taking the two rovers for a drive over to a titanium repository. A large circular chunk of ground made up of titanium-rich rock about 3 miles away waited for us. The Explorer 2 crew were showing it to us when it happened.

                    Our two crews split up. 3 crewmembers of one mission and 3 of another went in one rover. I shared a rover with Edens, Mikhail, Ryan, and two other crewmembers of Explorer 2; Walker and Roberts. We closely followed the other rover to the repository.

                    B1 was in view and I stared in wonder at it, occasionally taking in my other surroundings. We seemed to be driving in the middle of a wide opened canyon, the entrance of it being a mile away from Outpost 2.

                    We finally got there after a few minutes of driving. Shiny gray spots littered the area around us. We got out of the rover to see the tall rocky walls on either side of us, each reaching up about 700 feet. I followed Ryan and Walker out of the hatch with Edens, Mikhail and Roberts behind me.

                    We looked down to the ground. Small particles of titanium dust were getting on our boots. We walked over to the other crewmembers that were also inspecting the dust on their boots.

                    “These particles are very fine,” said Hernandez.

                    “Yes, on rare occasions, the bottom of this canyon will flood over with rainwater eroding the titanium ore,” explained Reed, one of the two scientists of Explorer 2.

                    “How often does that happen?” I asked.

                    Reed looked over at us and said, “Usually once every two years or so.”

                    I bent down and ran two fingers over the gray dust. The fingertips of my gloves were covered in the titanium dust. “How did you guys mine this?” I asked.

                    Torres, the head engineer on Explorer 2 went over to a rover and pulled down a mining arm, similar to the ones at Outpost 3 on Planet 1.

                    “See the small, jagged holes in the ground?”

                    I looked down and saw a few holes in the gray surface. “Yeah.”

                    “We mine the ore in the best spots. These mining arms break down the ore into little chunks. They get fed up the mining arm in this tube and gets stored in this small tank here. We take it back to the processor back at base and melt it into molten titanium.

                    “We then pour the molten titanium into molds of various sizes. We let them cool and take them out of the molds and paint them. We stacked them up in the maintenance closet. When you leave tomorrow, you will take the panels with you.”

                    As he finished talking, I looked back up at B1 where something caught my eye. A small chunk of the edge seemed to be missing! Sure enough, I looked over and saw a tiny chunk of the moon.

                    “Woah, guys look!” I said pointing to B1. Everyone looked up at the moon. The crewmembers all started murmuring. Quick cursed under his breath.

                    “Everyone get in the rovers now! Let’s get back to base!” he said. We all started running to the rovers. We all got in whichever one was closest to us. I’m pretty sure more crewmembers were in one rover than the other. I got in with Mikhail, Hernandez, and Quick. I sat up front with Quick as he drove.

                    “Radio in the others,” Quick said.

                    I turned on the Com system and called in the other rover. “You guys follow us and drive as fast as you can!” I said.

                    We booked it out of the canyon in no time, driving at nearly 60 miles an hour. Hernandez finally asked, “What in God’s name is going on?”

                    “A moon is exploding, no time to explain!” I said.

                    “Well how come we haven’t heard a boom yet?”

                    All of a sudden, the whole planet shook. A loud rumbling noise similar to that of an atomic explosion filled our ears. Large rocks started falling down the mountainsides.

                    “There it is,” said Mikhail.

                    Our eyes were all wide with fear. I looked back to see the other rover trailing us close behind. I looked closer to see a large rock falling above them, and then CRASH, the whole entire rover was flattened!

                    “Holy crap!” I said. We all looked behind us except for Quick who was still driving. I tried calling them on the radio.

                    “Come in; do you read me? Hello! Do you read? Hello! Come in!” I yelled frantically. No reply, just static. “They’re gone.”

                    We all sat there in silence, taking in what just happened.

                    “We’re here! Everyone get out!” Quick yelled. We all hopped out of the rover and ran for the lander.

                    I stopped momentarily after getting out looking at the carnage behind us. It was faint, but I could see a large rock on top of a nearly flat piece of metal. More rocks were falling, nearly burying the wreckage.

                    “The panels!” I yelled.

                    “No time, Commander, get in the lander!” said Hernandez. I ran off as fast as I could towards the lander where the other crewmembers awaited. It was Explorer 2’s lander by the looks of it.

                    “VTOL engines startup,” said Quick calmly.

     I looked out the windows at the moon for a second time. About half the moon was gone. Chunks of rocks were flying in all directions. The giant chunk that blew off B1 first seemed to be falling back to the planet quickly. I estimated it must have been at least 50 miles top to bottom. The results of it crashing into the planet would be catastrophic.

    With a roar of the engines, the lander took off into the air.

    “Can you pilot this thing?” I asked Quick.

    “Oh please! I could fly this thing better than your Nighthawk.”

    Tiny rocks from the explosion were blasted into space so quickly that some of them were falling through the atmosphere already. Chunks of B1 were falling all around us, some with trails of fire behind them.

    “C’mon, Quick, we need to go faster!” I said.

    “The throttle won’t go any faster!”

    Hernandez and Mikhail were praying in the seats behind us. As a Lutheran person at heart, I said a short frantic prayer myself. The chunks just kept coming. As the VTOL engines began to shut off, a large chunk of B1 about a mile across fell through the air just about a hundred feet away.

    “Skipping coastal faze, activating main engines!” said Quick.

    The hind engines roared to life. We were thrown back in our seats as the G-forces built up. Looking behind the lander, the 50 mile wide chunk was about halfway between B1 and the planet.

    “Circularization burn completed; main engine cutoff,” confirmed Quick.

    The main engines cutoff and we were lifted out of our seats by the forces of microgravity. The launch had good timing, too; the Nighthawk was only a few miles above us.

    “Hurry up, Quick, we don’t have all day!” I said.

    “Alright, Hohmann transfer burn in 3… 2… 1…”

    The hind engines came alive once more. The extra burn sent us flying towards the Nighthawk. After about a minute of near collisions with falling rocks, we made it to the Nighthawk. Luckily, everything seemed to be intact. A small burn of the hind engines matched the velocities of the two spacecraft.

    “Opening the hangar doors,” said Quick with a press of the button.

    The two large doors at the front of the ship opened revealing a docking port. A few bursts of the RCS ports sent us going in the direction we wanted to go. The lander entered the hangar bay and docked to the port inside. The two doors closed again enveloping us in darkness. Lights came on inside illuminating the hangar.

    “Opening the hatch,” I said.

    The doors opened letting us inside the spacecraft. We took off immediately towards the command module.

    “Since this is my ship, I get to fly it,” I told Quick.

    Quick and I sat up front with Hernandez and Mikhail in the two seats behind us.

    “Everyone buckle up!” I said as I activated the Alcubierre Drive. With a loud hum, the Drive sent us careening forward into space. The first giant chunk of B1 started to get too close to comfort to the planet.

    “Guys, the first chunk is starting to reenter,” Mikhail informed us.

    I looked out the window and sure enough, yellow flames were enveloping the bottom of the space rock. Looking at other spots in space, other huge chunks of B1 were flying in all directions.

    I pushed the throttle as high as it could go. As the Nighthawk escaped the planet’s gravity, the impact happened. The side of the planet flattened out, sending huge chunks out into space. The size of the planet enveloped the moon. Giant waves of destruction spread throughout the planet, causing the outer layer to break into millions of pieces.

    The rings of the planet were disrupted by the collision as well. Individual rings flew off in all directions. Other parts fell back to the surface, causing more destruction. Giant clouds of rocks and water flew out over the impact site, enveloping the moon.

    I couldn’t help but watch. We all gathered by the windows as the destruction of the planet unfolded. Random chunks started to orbit closely, forming new moons that would soon be sucked in by the planet’s gravity, causing more destruction.

    “So what happens now?” asked Hernandez.

    “We need to make a plan,” I responded.

    “Don’t forget about the missing panels. The explosion likely caused more damage to the ship,” Quick pitched in.

    “True, I did see some more panels had been punctured,” said Mikhail.

    “So we need to have a fix to it soon. Luckily, a nearby star system has a planet that surface is covered completely in crystalized titanium,” I said, “However, its highly elliptical orbit to its star causes the titanium to melt over into a molten hell.”

    “We’re going to the planet, yes?” asked Mikhail.

    “It’s our best hope to fix the Nighthawk. The planet is only 5 lightyears away.”

     

    “VTOL engines activated,” I said.

    The bottom lander engines came to life and slowed us down to a halt on the surface. The titanium crystals crunched underneath the landing legs.

    “We’ll EVA tomorrow. As of now, we need to get some rest,” I commanded.

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